Islands (King-Crimson-Album)
Occupation
- Robert Fripp - Guitar, Mellotron, " Peter's Pedal Harmonium ", various
- Mel Collins - flute, bass flute, saxophone, vocals
- Boz Burrell - bass, vocals
- Ian Wallace - drums, percussion, vocals
- Peter Sinfield - lyrics, sounds and visual
- Keith Tippett - Piano
- Paulina Lucas - Soprano
- Robin Miller - oboe
- Mark Charig - Cornet
- Harry Miller - double bass
Islands is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson. It was released in 1971 on EC Records LTD (Virgin ).
Genesis
Singer and bassist Boz Burrell and drummer Ian Wallace came in advance of the band. Since King Crimson at this time had no bass player, Robert Fripp decided that Burrell should learn the bass playing. Iceland was taken during an ongoing tour. In addition, it was the last album on which Keith Tippett participated. After the recordings, Peter Sinfield left the band, he was next to Fripp the only founding member that was still in the band.
The cover shows a picture of the Trifidnebels.
Music style
Islands is considered to be the last album of the first creative period of the band. The to date tried style is broken on the Islands on the following albums, while the references to the previous albums are clear.
The instrumentation is rich and ( for rock music ) rather unusual, it can be heard, inter alia, various wind instruments, a bass and a string quartet.
It is between a slow, harmonious gait with gentle vocals (parts of Formentera Lady and esp. the title song Islands ) and violent, sometimes hard, sometimes jazzy, sometimes improvised -sounding pieces varied, with many rhythmic experiments take place.
The influences on the album are partially in East Asia, but especially classical ( European ) sprung music.
Achievements
The album reached number # 30 on the British charts and ranked # 76 of the U.S. Billboard charts.
Title list
Trivia
The Letters is based on the piece Drop In, which was played in 1969 at concerts of King Crimson.
The basic motive of Song of Gulls comes from the pre- King Crimson era, as Robert Fripp was still on the road with Michael and Peter Giles as a trio. The play, based on the song called in the original Suite No.. 1